DNA

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s Marvin Caruthers wins inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing technology that efficiently synthesizes DNA

June 28, 2023

The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Caruthers’ development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids.

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Research studying grassland resilience to climate change receives USDA grant support

June 22, 2023

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Ecology and Evolutionary Biology scientist Katharine Suding is leading ongoing research in partnership with City of Boulder Open Space.

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Ghosts, global warming and hunter-gatherers

June 15, 2023

A recently published paper co-authored by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s Fernando Villanea offers new insights into what happened to the populations of Central Mexico a millennium ago.

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Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s Aaron Whiteley named a Pew Scholar

June 13, 2023

The biochemistry assistant professor is investigating how inflammatory proteins called NLRs establish the first line of defense against viral infection in bacteria and humans.

awards

Three Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder profs win Boettcher Foundation awards

June 12, 2023

The awards are part of $1.88 million in 2023 biomedical research grant funding for Colorado researchers.

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Scholar turns righteous anger into climate action

June 8, 2023

How PhD student Brigid Mark joined the fight for environmental justice after spending four years battling a pipeline that she says taints clean water, worsens climate change and erodes native treaty rights.

ASCEND awardees

Faculty, staff and students honored for diversity, inclusion work

June 7, 2023

Chosen by a faculty committee, the recipients of ASCEND Awards were recognized for their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion.

Todd J. Zywicki

Todd Zywicki named new visiting scholar in conservative thought, policy

June 6, 2023

Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, will join the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ as the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy for fall 2023.

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‘Classroom in the sky’ inspires generations of researchers, students

June 2, 2023

As the Mountain Research Station celebrates turning 100, a look back on its history—and toward its future.

ocean

Large or small, nuclear war would wreak havoc on the ocean

May 31, 2023

Study finds that the ocean could never fully recover if a nuclear war were to break out.

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